The jury rejected the attempted murder charge and found the woman guilty of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm. The verdict is not final and the public prosecutor has not made any statement for the time being.
The defendant took a 34-year-old man home from a nightclub in the early morning of October 26, 2023, “because we got along well after sex.” The 34-year-old booked her for the first time in July 2023 through an escort service. He then met her again by chance in the nightclub and retired to a room with her after a few drinks. He then accepted her invitation and got into a taxi with the woman.
“You’re like my ex!”
Since then, the 34-year-old has been puzzling over why the 23-year-old attacked him in her apartment. The woman was already quite drunk and “almost unresponsive” and suddenly started talking about her ex-boyfriend, he told the court as a witness. He wasn’t interested in that. With the words “Okay, then I’ll go to sleep,” he went into the bedroom and wanted to lie down. The 23-year-old said, “You’re like my ex!” shouted that he had been hit from behind. “Why?” the presiding judge wanted to know. “I would like to know that too,” said the 34-year-old.
According to the prosecution, the 23-year-old stabbed him three times in the back and once in the right shoulder with a folding knife with a blade length of nine centimeters. “For no reason, without any comprehensible reason, completely surprising for the victim,” as the prosecutor emphasized. Defense attorney Andreas Schweizer saw it differently. His client wanted to talk to the 34-year-old about her ex-boyfriend: “He didn’t like that.” She then wanted to throw him out, but a scuffle broke out. “The stabbings were a defense. She didn’t want to kill him, she wanted him to get away from her,” said Schweitzer, admitting that what she did was “excessive. It was excessive self-defense.” However, the defendant was “completely high on alcohol and drugs”.
“I thought he wanted to kill me”
“I often drink too much, but rarely become violent,” remarked the defendant – a native German – at the beginning of her interrogation. She was also “extremely drunk” in her apartment at the time. She told her friend “that my ex-boyfriend and his gang were finishing me off. He smiled. Laughed. I wanted to throw him out. He said he would only go to sleep and took off his clothes. Then I got out my knife and said “leave the apartment”. The man didn’t comply, he called her “disturbed”: “I pushed him with the knife in my hand. Unfortunately, that’s when I caught him. In the upper shoulder area.”
As a result, the man – a programmer by profession, at 1.73 meters significantly smaller than the defendant and, at just over 60 kilograms, not a heavyweight – brought her to the ground and beat her. “I thought he was going to kill me. I thought he was going to smash my head in,” the defendant claimed. Then, lying on her back, she stabbed him three times with the knife, using a “deliberately light” approach: “If I had wanted to kill him, I would have taken it further.”
The jury did not believe the self-defense version claimed by the defendant. However, they also came to the conclusion that there was no intent to kill.
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